Roots of Deception

Roots of DeceptionShe was trained to make people fall in love with a lie.Abena Mensah survived the streets of Accra by becoming whoever the moment required. Recruited as a teenager into a covert operation built on manufactured devotion, she has spent years perfecting the art of romance fraud, reading people the way others read weather, always in control, always one step removed from herself.Her latest assignment seems routine: get close to a wealthy American, drain his accounts, disappear. But her target isn't who he seems, and neither, increasingly, is she.As the lines between performance and feeling begin to blur, Abena finds herself facing a question she has never been allowed to ask: who is she, when no one is telling her who to be?Meanwhile, two investigators on opposite sides of the Atlantic are closing in, each following a thread neither knows the other is pulling. As their work converges, Abena is forced toward a reckoning with the people who made her, the man she was sent to deceive, and the version of herself she left behind.Roots of Deception is a literary suspense novel about identity, consequence, and what it costs to become someone else in order to survive, and what it might cost to stop.